“I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.” WayWantI CanHappensMy OwnGoneStreetsSecurityWanderLos AngelesSpoiledCaptivitySecurity Guards Author:Christine McVie
“I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.” PeopleEyeMy OwnStreetsShouldersPope Author:Michael Servetus
“I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsAbleTogetherFoundMy OwnInterestingWeekStreetsStrangerDisasterScalesFakeRelatedReally InterestingManhattan Author:Alexandra Daddario
“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.” PeopleWritingWantedSongHouseNamesStuffMy OwnFiveHappenedStreetsSixIntentionAlbumsStudiosReleaseFighterWriting SongsDemosFoo Fighters Author:Dave Grohl
“After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.” YearsMayMy OwnStreetsSixDecidedOwn Business Author:Daniel Boulud
“The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.” WayDifferentFoundMy OwnAliveTroubleStreetsAchievementOvercomingDemonRecklessSpitKnackGreatest AchievementPersonal Demons Author:Michael K. Williams
“David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.” IfsWayIdeasFeelingsHomeSongMy OwnHalfSuccessfulStreetsStupidDancingBombsBeing SuccessfulCoveredVansWay HomeHalf WayVan HalenPlaying Someone Author:Eddie Van Halen
“I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.” ThinkingDoeI CanPlayMy OwnStreetsEventsNewspapersWitnessDramaticInternalsCoincidenceMy Own Life Author:Athol Fugard
“I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.” WantEndsFeelingsMotherFightingCausesMy OwnKnowingStreetsBrotherMy BrotherThe End Of The DayStayingLanesBansStay TrueSingle MotherTrue To Myself Author:Trae tha Truth
“I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.” StatesHomeLastsHateMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesWeekStreetsFashionCitizensCrossesI HateLovelyFeminineIndividualismArtificialCoatsFifthAvenuesRippedGownsRefrigeratorsFifth AvenuePosies Book:The Rest of My Life Source: The Rest of My Life
“We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindLittlesEasyMy OwnStreetsRecognizingSuspicious Author:Megan Martha White
“I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow.” IfsBelievePersonsHappensAsksMy OwnPrayerStreetsPrayingSorrowDon't BelieveDefinedEaseSchemesEntityUnfortunateMantras Author:George Carlin
“What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and be like, Even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt.” PeopleStillsLife IsGuyMy OwnCommonStreetsWalkingThis GuyMy Own LifeBrad Author:Dave Chappelle
“I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.” PeopleFeelsKindWholeAgeFeltSidesMy OwnGenerationsStreetsResponsibleComplicatedConnectedShockVietnamBeing ThereMy GenerationPilgrimageEmpatheticComplicated RelationshipHanoi Author:Anne Waldman
“It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a "destiny" to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century.” ImportantSelfMightDiesMy OwnDestinyStreetsCenturyGeniusIllnessAccidentsConvincedSelf ConfidenceMoodCertaintyRememberedMeaning Of LifeSpiteThinkerFamous Writers Author:Colin Wilson
“I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.” WantUseBigsGoalMy OwnCitiesStreetsNew YorkDesignBallsTennisNew York CityWalkersTennis Balls Author:Abbey Curran